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The Schmooze New Book ‘Kushner, Inc’ Makes Wild Claims — But The Wildest Thing Is Reading About Javanka At All
A new book, “Kushner, Inc” by journalist Vicky Ward, calls itself “the first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power.” The gleaming hardcover, bearing the words “Greed. Ambition. Corruption.” promises to “dig [sic] beneath the myth the couple has created.” This is a case of beautifully coiffed snake eats tail — digging…
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Fast Forward ‘Satirical’ Video Game Allows Players To Murder Minorities As Hitler, Trump
A petition is calling for the removal of a video game, where gamers play as figures such as Jesus Christ, Adolf Hitler and President Trump — and has them kill minorities. “Jesus Strikes Back: Judgement Day” was released online in January. A Change.org petition has received about 3,000 of the 5,000 signatures it’s asking for. The…
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Fast Forward Trump Tweets Again About New Right-Wing Jewish Group ‘Jexodus’
For the second time in a week, President Trump has tweeted about an all-but-unknown right-wing group that says it represents Jews who are abandoning the Democratic Party. In his Friday morning tweet, Trump wrote that the Jexodus organization “encourages Jewish people to leave the Democrat Party,” and that “Republicans are waiting with open arms.” He…
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The Schmooze Who Is Elizabeth Pipko, Trump’s 23-Year-Old Jewish Friend?
On Tuesday morning, the President tweeted the following, giving as the source of his information “Elizabeth Pipko, Jexodus.” “Jewish people are leaving the democratic party. We saw a lot of anti Israel policies start under the Obama administration, and it got worsts & worst. There is anti-Semitism in the Democratic Party. They don’t care about…
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Fast Forward What is Jexodus, the Right-Wing Jewish Group Trump Tweeted About This Morning?
President Trump on Tuesday name-checked an all-but-unknown conservative Jewish group calling itself “JEXODUS” in a morning tweet, quoting its spokeswoman’s claims that “Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party.” “Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party. We saw a lot of anti Israel policies start under the Obama Administration, and it got worsts & worse….
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Fast Forward Trump Says ‘Democrats Hate Jewish People’
(JTA) — President Donald Trump, saying the “Democrats hate Jewish people,” said he could not understand how any Jewish person could vote for a Democrat these days. Trump also told a room filled with Republican National Committee donors that if he could run for prime minister of Israel, he would be polling at 98 percent, Axios reported Sunday….
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Fast Forward Meet Allen Weisselberg, the man who knows how Trump spent his money
Editor’s note: The New York attorney general has launched a tax-related criminal investigation into Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of former President Donald J. Trump’s company. With that in mind, we are re-sharing this 2019 article about Weisselberg. During his congressional testimony last week, President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen revealed the names of…
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Fast Forward Trump Defends Kim Over Death Of Otto Warmbier
President Trump defended North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Thursday over the treatment of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was arrested in North Korea in 2015 and later returned to his family in a coma, from which he later died. Speaking at a press conference after the end of a nuclear summit in…
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